Survival. Survival is the issue. We use names like climate change and global warming. Really, we are talking about Survival. It is very clear that this struggle is not about future generations. It is here.
Right Now:
- Desertification is running rampant in Africa, detrimentally exasperating every social and health issue.
- Heat waves have spread over Europe claiming hundreds of thousands of lives
- Basic resources like water are becoming extinct in many parts of Asia or too plentiful and are already claiming islands
- Droughts lay thickly over Australia, exhausting their agricultural system
- Diseases are spreading exponentially each year all over South America
- And, Hurricanes and forest fires have spun out of control throughout North America.
- Oh and the Ice Caps, our global climate stabilizer, are melting
EVERYWHERE, the fossil fuel industry is wreaking havoc. And as a result, everything is changing.
And yet, we continually hear this false contradiction parroted throughout the most powerful nations in the world: what is scientifically necessary is not politically viable.
So, it is not politically viable to adhere to scientific targets that ensure a sustainable, peaceful, equitable, and collaborative treaty? But somehow it is politically viable to let half the world drown in climate chaos?
The vast majority of people all over the world are calling on their governments to make these necessary changes, and Youth are at the forefront of this. We do not accept that some people are just not worth saving.